Morris, 1 read before this Society in 1880. He read notes 

 on an encysted filaria found in the flesh of a bullock, and 

 exhibited the cyst, portions of the mature worm and the 

 embryo. He mentioned the dense white fibrous tissue 

 capsule, and noticed that the nodules may contain more 

 than one worm. In 1892 appeared an accurate article 

 upon the subject by the late Dr. John Gibson- of Windsor, 

 N.S.W. The specimens, the subject of his paper, were 

 received from Mr. Stanley, the New South Wales Govern- 

 ment Veterinarian, at the beginning of that year and were 

 labelled "Tumours from the brisket of a fat bullock, con- 

 taining filaria-ova viviparous." Dr. Gibson's descriptions 

 of the pathology of the tumours and of the embryo worms 

 and of those parts of the adults which he could extract are 

 excellent. He was unable, however, to obtain adult heads 

 and tails. He mentions that Dr. Cobb, of the New South 

 Wales Department of Agriculture, hail undertaken to work 

 out the identity of the parasite, a matter which, if under- 

 taken, was apparently never published. 



In the same year, Dr. T. L. Bancroft :! reported finding 

 the nodules in oxen in Brisbane and Rockhampton (Q.) and 

 mentioned their having previously been found by Dr. Morris 

 and the late Dr. J. Bancroft. 



In the following year (1893), Dr. C. K. Barnard and Mr. 

 A. Park, m.r.c.v.s., 4 submitted a paper entitled "Notes on 

 Sj.in.pti'ia associated with Tuberculosis in Cattle. M They 

 noted the resemblance of the tumours to those caused by 



1 Morris, Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. , xiv. '-- : 



lasia, 1892, p. 576. 



s Bancroft, T. L. " Notes on some Diseases of Stock in Queensland," in 

 Report of the Chief Inspector of Stock and Brands for the year 1893, 

 Queensland. Appendix, p, \. Quoted by Tryon, Queensland Agrie. Jour. 

 Feb. 1910, p. 81. 



* Barnard and Park, Report Australasian Assoc, for Advancement of Science 



